Complete samurai armor - Japan - Edo period (1603-1868) - 17th century

full samurai armor
Japan, Edo Period (1603-1868)
17th century
Iron, lacquer, silk, horsehair

Kabuto of the kōseizan suji-bachi type, chiseled tehen, hachi with thirty-two suji, lacquered leather shikoro with five blades, iron mabizashi with three rivets, yellow silk agemaki, maedate in the shape of a golden crescent moon.
Mempo of the Nara type, chiseled with wrinkles, with a horsehair moustache; mengu composed of four lacquer strips.
Do in two parts covered with black lacquer, tateage and kabuki dū composed of eight black lacquered strips, munalta, oshitsuke no ita and wakilta in suite
Jinboari in navy blue, beige and red silk; the back depicting a mon ku-yô (nine stars; ku = nine); jô-mon (main coat of arms) of the Kitsu-kawa clan, Makit-ta, Oku-daïra of O-bata, Sakura-i, Sô-ma, To-da of Ô-gaki, To-da (K), Tsuchi-ya; kaye-mon (secondary coat of arms) of Da-té, Hiji-kata, I-tô of Oka-da, Maki-no of Ta-nabe and Ko-muro, Oku-daïra of Oshi, Nam-bu, Ô-gyû of Fu-naï, Ô-ku-bo of Karasu-yama, Sakaki-bara, To-zawa.
Navy blue silk kote with tekko, lacquered iron shino.
Kusazuri in lacquer composed of seven strips, hishinui no ita in silk.
Haidate in patterned beige silk chikara-gawa, Iyo in lacquered iron.
Suneate in leather and black lacquered iron elements.

Ref.: 6564

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